Current Projects chat and miscellany

Lots! TI, who bought Raleigh in 1960, bought up lots of names like BSA, Hercules, Humber, Phillips, Norman and Sun and merged them together from 1960 onwards.

Did it look like it might be earlier than that? Brookes took over Lycett in the 20s so that could have been really old, but I don't know when they stopped using the Lycett brand.

Unusual not to have a BB stamp though.

had something come into the shop recently that looked very similar to this, sturmey with the tt pulleys, but it was fitted with a "lycett" leather saddle, absolutely perfect condition, really nice bike and the guy bought it from the local tip for £20, i was tempted to offer him £30 for it, only thing was it had no markings at all, the original badge was removed and it had no bb stamp, definitely not a raleigh though any thing similar produced?